A mind apart
Subtitle: travels in a neurodiverse world
By: Susanne Antonetta
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781585423828
Subjects: Pathological Psychology
Description: In A Mind Apart, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience with manic depression, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, and other "neuroatypical" conditions, to construct a fascinating portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly different from the norm. As with her previous book, which Michael Pollan praised in the New York Times Book Review as "a challenge to our prevailing notions of science and journalism and even literary narrative," A Mind Apart employs a unique fusion of literary genres to draw readers into the experience of people with neurological conditions and to consider what their alternate ways of perceiving may, in fact, have to teach us. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240).
Table of contents: title: The Human Road; title: Dreaming; title: I Am the Name It Had; title: Ship of Fools; title: Hearing Voices; title: Among the Beautiful Crows; title: Pandemonium on Zombie Earth; title: Paradise Earth; title: Accidentals; title: Language Garden.